Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:21:47 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, sam1600@iname.com, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd manual in html format? Message-ID: <200101041921.f04JLln10537@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20010104171209.A4373@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <001227101708E0.28727@weba4.iname.net> <200012291850.eBTIoHJ24177@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010101213447.A349@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <200101031838.f03Icjm65863@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010104171209.A4373@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>
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--==_Exmh_64912244P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Nik Clayton wrote: > > We have versions of the handbook in pdb, pdf, ps, rtf, and txt format, > > compressed with bz2, gz, and zip. HTML is not one of these. :-( I'm > > not that familiar with the way we build the docs for our Web site, so I > > can't comment further. > > Bug in my script[1]. Specifically, if you > > make FORMATS=html\ html-split INSTALL_ONLY_COMPRESSED=yes install > > it won't do anything. FORMATS needs to contain html.tar and > html-split.tar, so that the tarballs are built (which makes sense, in a > perverse sort of way). Hmmm. Interesting. Guess when/if I understand more about the doc-building process I'll know why. > > One other thing I noticed: the modification dates for the > > aforementioned files are all "Dec 20 00:47". Are these files supposed > > to get updated more frequently? > > Periodically, when I remember. Typically, once a week (sometimes a bit > more if I've been on holiday, as I was last week). [details elided] > The build doesn't happen automatically because the machine I do the > builds on has variable load, and I try and time it so the machine's only > lightly used. Also, I've had zero time to invest in completely > automating this. OK, got it. For some reason I thought that since the Web pages got rebuilt automatically, the doc files did too. Thanks, Bruce. --==_Exmh_64912244P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6VM1K2MoxcVugUsMRAuM4AKD7vPt87RshNVGvjKP9EzaK1vNKdACg6+/r xtpZz8e7Od0yzvSszOTcx+I= =INhQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_64912244P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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